Image 8 of Catalogue of the Officers, Studies, and Students of the State College of Kentucky, Lexington, Volume 4 (Session ending 1895 June 6 )

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STATE COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY . 3
. appointed. In 1886 the Station was recognized and named by the
General Assembly, and in 1887, it and a similar Station in every other
State were each endowed by Congress with an annual appropriation
of $15,000.
The work of the Station is directed to two objects: 1 To a constant
succession of experiments by specialists, in order to learn what appli-
cations of science will ensure the best returns from the farm the
garden, the orchard, the vineyard, the stock-yard and the dairy; 2
To the publication of bulletins announcing such results of the experi-
ments as are found to be valuable to any of our people that seek profit .
from either of those prime sources of wealth, the soil, the Bock or the
herd.
Results of experiments have been published in six reports and fifty-
three bulletins, and general appreciation of their utility is shown in
the fact that, while no bulletin is sent except upon application for it, ·
the mailing list of the Station contains more than 11,000 names and ‘
is ever increasing. °
With an ample endowment, a large and commodious building
planned for the purpose, adequate apparatus, a good experimental
farm conveniently situated, and seven capable scientists always
employed and in correspondence with other stations, The Kentucky ~
Agricultural Experiment Station is not only an important adjunct of
. the College in the education of students for the leading industrial
pursuit, but directly or indirectly through the wide and continual ·
diffusion of knowledge for the benefit of so la1·ge a proportion of our _
population, it is bound to be extremely useful to the Commonwealth
at large.
‘ Location.
The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky is estab-
lished in the old City Park grounds of the City of Lexington, given
to the Commonwealth for this purpose. The site is elevated, and
commands a good view of the city and surrounding count1·y.
Lexington is now the most important railroad center in Kentucky,
being in immediate communication with Louisville, Cincinnati, Mays-
ville, Chattanooga, and with more than seventy counties in the
Commonwealth. The long established reputation of the city for
refinement and culture renders it attractive as a seat of learning,
and the large body of fertile country adjacent, known as the "Blue
Grass Region," with its splendid stock farms, a1i`ords unsurpassed .
advantages to the student of agriculture who desires to make himself
familiar with the best breeds of horses, cattle, sheep and swine in
America.